College of Health Profession students working in a clinical setting.

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Expected Student Learning Outcomes

  • Students are expected to achieve the following characteristics and attributes by the completion of their program:

    Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:

    • Demonstrate critical thinking and clinical reasoning to arrive at sound and effective clinical judgments.
    • Provide culturally competent patient-centered care to individuals, families, groups, and communities.
    • Provide safe, comprehensive, high quality, and technologically competent care for diverse populations.
    • Integrate concepts of inter and intra-professional communication, holism, health promotion, and disease prevention in the delivery of primary health care.
    • Establish community partnerships promoting health from a local through global perspective.
    • Integrate nursing theory and research in an evidence-based approach to nursing practice.
    • Demonstrate accountability for the legal and ethical principles of professional nursing practice in a socially responsible manner.
    • Utilize leadership skills and strategies to promote quality patient care.
  • Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:

    • Use theory from wide range of disciplines to facilitate and provide primary health care.
    • Provide culturally competent, holistic health care that affirms human diversity and commonalities and addresses the concerns of aggregates.
    • Evaluate the health of individuals, families, groups, and communities using ecological and global perspectives.
    • Initiate change to improve nursing practice and primary healthcare delivery.
    • Apply theory, research, and other accepted forms of evidence to provide evidence-based practice.
    • Manage human, fiscal, and other healthcare resources to provide high quality, cost-effective care.
    • Demonstrate skill in collaboration and leadership within the context of interdisciplinary healthcare systems and policy arenas.
    • Demonstrate accountability for ethical decision-making in the provision of primary health care.

     

  • Within the framework of primary health care and consistent with professional standards, the student will be able to:

    • Synthesize relevant theories from a variety of disciplines to develop frameworks for culturally competent, evidence-based advanced practice nursing in primary health care.
    • Guide the provision of culturally competent evidence-based primary health care to individuals and populations in a variety of primary health care practice settings.
    • Evaluate evidence related to clinical, educational, cultural, and organizational issues, needs and challenges to recommend a course of action for best practices in primary health care.
    • Design mentorship roles in primary health care clinical practice in the development, implementation and evaluation of culturally competent, evidence-based best practice protocols and projects.
    • Integrate relevant information technology to support culturally competent, evidence-based primary health care delivery.
    • Create change in health policy using the best available evidence with a culturally competent primary health care perspective.
    • Develop collaborations with other disciplines and essential stakeholders to provide culturally competent, best practices in primary health care.